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GCP – Early-bird registration for Google Cloud Next ‘23 is open now
San Francisco, here we come. Starting today, you can now register at the Early Bird rate of $899 USD* for Google Cloud Next ‘23, taking place in person, August 29-31, 2023. This year’s Next conference comes at an exciting time. The emergence of generative AI is a transformational opportunity that some say may be as […]

AWS – AWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region
AWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection for Amazon Aurora is now generally available
Amazon GuardDuty broadens threat detection coverage to help you protect your data residing in Amazon Aurora databases. GuardDuty RDS Protection is designed to profile and monitor access activity to Aurora databases in your AWS account without impacting database performance. Using tailored machine learning models and integrated threat intelligence, GuardDuty can detect potential threats such as […]

AWS – AWS Chatbot now available in Microsoft Teams
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Chatbot for Microsoft Teams that enables AWS customers to securely monitor their AWS resources, and respond to operation events in their AWS infrastructure from Microsoft Teams channels where their entire team can quickly review, collaboratively diagnose, and securely run common DevOps commands. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Load Testing support for JMeter 5.5
Azure Load Testing now uses Apache JMeter version 5.5 for running load tests. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-March 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-March 2023 Read More for the details.

Azure – General Availability: Performance workbooks for Azure PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
New troubleshooting experiences via monitor workbooks for Azure PostgreSQL – Flexible Server Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: PgBouncer monitoring metrics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Monitor the PgBouncer process health for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server via Azure Monitor metrics and write custom alert rules on these metrics. Read More for the details.

Azure – Preview: JSON support for Active Geo-Replication on Azure Cache for Redis
Work with JSON-style documents synced across multiple regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Now available: Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials
Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources. Read More for the details.